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In this course you'll learn how to understand audience, how to built relationships in the newsroom, how to think of ideas and create them, and you'll get an overview of approaches and things learned at the Chicago Tribune as they have tried to tell more stories using data and visuals on the web.

In this course we'll introduce and demonstrate some useful Excel commands and formulas for cleaning up and transforming data. But you’ll also learn some strategies and tricks for managing your data cleaning processes.

In the age of the Internet, rumours and hoaxes quickly spread during breaking news situations. As a result, there is an increased need for journalists to sort real, authentic content from the fakes. This course will provide the basics on how to get started with verifying online information.

Bringing a data journalism project to a good end is not an easy task. There are a lot of variables and processes at play that need to be managed and accounted for before the project can be produced and in the end published.